On Fri, 18 Nov 1994, Dave Hendrickson wrote:
 
> Ray Curran wrote:
> >
> > I'll agree with you there based on people from my area who are now
> > playing hockey in both conferences. Three people that were average (at
> > best) students academically went to Maine, New Hampshire, and
> > Northeastern to play hockey, while someone who was fifth in his class
> > needed to go to prep school for a year before going to Yale,
>
> I won't get into the rest of the argument, but it should be pointed out that
> the vast majority of hockey players who "prep" for a year do so to improve
> their hockey, not their scholastics.  One can assume that that was the case
> with this student.  Prepping or not is most often irrelevant in the argument.
>
> DaveH
>
You are correct in that case, he had a tough senior year in high school
where his surrounding cast was not very supportive.
 
Ray